The mission of the Manhattan Institute is to develop and disseminate new ideas that foster greater economic choice and individual responsibility. |
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William E. Simon Lecture Annually, since 2007, the Manhattan Institute has sponsored the William E. Simon lecture on philanthropy and social entrepreneurship. This lecture series seeks to provide a framework—historical and current, scholarly and personal—for understanding the tradition and trends in American charity and charitable enterprises. Our first three lectures have ranged widely across these fields, including the 2007 talk by a distinguished historian, the 2008 talk by a renowned public policy essayist, and the December, 2009 lecture by the founder of the nation's most prominent management consulting firm for non-profits. 2012 LECTURE: December 12, 2012 | New York City PAST LECTURES: December 14, 2011 | New York City December 9, 2010 | New York City December 3, 2009 | New York City December 10, 2008 | New York City November 29, 2007 | New York City
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Our Program History has shown that free markets are the best way to organize economic activity. But the Manhattan Institute understands that in a healthy society markets are complemented by charitable and philanthropic enterprises which both help those in need and help prepare citizens to realize their potential. Indeed, Adam Smith himself understood this; his writing on the virtues of markets (Wealth of Nations) was preceded by his writing on morality, compassion, and altruism (Theory of Moral Sentiments). Since its founding, the United States has been characterized by its vibrant civil society, one in which private, nonprofit, voluntary nongovernmental organizations are formed to ameliorate social ills. Tocqueville observed just this in Democracy in America: "Americans of all ages, all conditions, and all dispositions, constantly form associations. They have not only commercial and manufacturing companies but associations of a thousand other kinds-religious, moral, serious, futile, enormous, or diminutive. The Americans make associations to give entertainments, to found seminaries, to build inns, to construct churches, to diffuse books; to send out missionaries; they found in this manner hospitals, prisons, and schools. Wherever, at the head of some new undertaking, you see the government in France, or a man of rank in England, in the United States you will be sure to find an association." Both to celebrate and support this tradition, the Manhattan Institute established our social entrepreneurship initiative in 2001. Directed by Vice-President for Policy Research Howard Husock, it combines research, writing, public speaking, and events on the role of nonprofit, nongovernmental organizations with an award program which recognizes the best of America's new generation of nonprofit leaders.
Publications As part of our Social Entrepreneurship Initiative, vice-president Howard Husock has published widely on the topic and related public policy issues. The following essays and articles explore such themes as the Obama Administration's view of government's relationship to charity and nonprofits; the potential for a non-profit "stock market"; and the values and motivations of the new generation of social entrpreneurs.
2012 Manhattan Institute Social Entrepreneurship Awards Honors C-SPAN's Brian Lamb, Howard Husock, The Huffington Post, 11-27-12 More information on the Manhattan Institute's Philanthropy Initiative |
Annual Social Entrepreneurship Awards · WILLIAM E. SIMON PRIZE FOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT IN SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP The Simon Prize recognizes lifetime achievement in social entrepreneurship and carries with it a $100,000 honorarium. Named for the one-time secretary of the Treasury and pioneer private equity fund leader, the Prize has been awarded to those who have followed in the footsteps of such great American historical figures as Clara Barton, the founder of the Red Cross and Jane Addams, founder of Hull House, inspiration for hundreds of early 20th-century settlement houses for immigrants. THIS YEAR'S SIMON PRIZE WINNER:
Learn more about past winners >> Nominations for the Simon Prize are accepted from the general public, with special attention paid to nominations from philanthropic donors.
· RICHARD CORNUELLE AWARD FOR SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP Each year since 2001, the Institute, in conjunction with a committee of distinguished scholars, practitioners, and foundation leaders, selects up to five individuals who have originated and effectively implemented a nonprofit organization providing direct services to those in need. Nominations for the $25,000 awards are solicited not from the organizations or individuals themselves but from donors—who have already demonstrated their own belief in the organizations they nominate. In keeping with the social entrepreneurship program's emphasis on the vitality of American civil society, the award is directed toward those with original ideas brought to fruition with predominantly private support, rather than in response to government grant programs. Learn about nomination criteria >> Questions about the Social Entrepreneurship Awards can be directed to Matthew Hennessey at mhennessey@manhattan-institute.org. |
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Brian Lamb
